"If the process of growing up is horror, then this kind of horror is what you and I have to face in life." The story takes place in the dream family of Gladstone, Pennsylvania. After the illusion of her middle-class family was shattered, her mother, Colleen, took her four siblings to seek refuge with her maternal grandparents in the Forworth Manor in the south. However, the grandmother locked the four children in a dark attic and cursed them as "sons of the devil." In order to survive, they experienced hatred, deception, despair and growth, and finally discovered the darkest secret in their mother's heart... A classic novel that combines horror and romance. In the voice of a girl, she tells the story of the horrific world she grew up in.